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Two miners were trapped. but now we've just got breaking news in that one miner has been found alive, and crews are working to get him out. we'll have more on it. and the obama administration says the cost of cleaning up that giant oil spill in the gulf of mexico will fall on british petroleum. a white house spokesperson said the president and officials say is much worse than estimated before. nbc news environmental expert looks at an effort to clean up that spill which threatens to become a major environmental disaster. >> reporter: fighting a wind pattern that could bring the spill ashore ...

Sip of coffee, spit it out, and later vomited. the official said that the coffee had a strong odor and might have been tampered with. the teacher reportedly brought that coffee from home. louisiana governor, bobby jindal, has declared a state of emergency with regard to the oil leak inching to shore. president obama has pledged an all-out response dispatching three of his cabinet members to louisiana and they took the drastic measure of setting fire to some of that oil. >> bp began a patrolled burn designed to remove large quantities of oil from the open water in an effort to detect shorelin...

Oil leaking at 5,000 barrels a day. and word now of a third leak under water. a bp spokesman says it could be 90 days before the spill is cleaned up. and oil could hit parts of the shoreline tomorrow. the massive cleanup effort could cost $1 billion. and so far crews have scooped up only 250,000 gallons of oil and water. nbc's chief environmental correspondent anne thompson breaks down what it takes to fight this spill. >> reporter: fighting a wind pattern that could bring the spill ashore by friday night, crews ignited a controlled burn of the oil in the gulf of mexico. >> like any new techno...